Zebra Cake

This is the cake I made for Alicia's Birthday!

What you need to make a 2 layer 8" cake (and some cupcakes with the leftovers):
1 box of vanilla/french vanilla/white cake
1 box of chocolate/fudge/brown cake
Frosting Dyed hot pink
Toothpick
Sparkly black piping gel

Make both boxes according to instructions keeping in separate bowls.
Grease 8" pan bottom and sides.
Drop 1/4 cup of vanilla mix in the center.
Immediately drop 1/4 cup of chocolate in the center of the vanilla circle.
Continue until the rings go all the way to the edge of the pan and it's about 2/3 full.
Bake according to instructions.
Repeat for 2nd layer.
Cool.
Stack with layer of frosting between each cake layer.
Frost top and sides with hot pink frosting. (I like the gel kind because the colors are richer)
I polka dotted the top with the black then decided I didn't like it so I swirled it with a toothpick...not sure I like that either but hey.
One person said it looked like spiders and one said flowers.

Jellyfish Cake

You will need:
box of funfetti cake mix
coconut snowballs(gas stations usually have them)
frosting - dye most blue but save out a titch for light pink
swedish fish
brown sugar

Bake a box of funfetti cake and follow instructions for a 13x9 pan.
Once cooled cut in half so you have 2 rectangles. Sandwich the two together with frosting.
Dye most of your frosting a pretty water color and frost the whole cake. Dye a few spoonfuls of the frosting pink for your jellyfish...stingers?/tentacles?/legs?/whatever
Use pink coconut snowballs as your jellyfish and gently smush into the frosting.
Put some light pink icing into a plastic bag and cut a small portion of the tip off. Pipe some squiggly...leg things.
Put some brown sugar around the plate as "sand" (this will also cover up any frosting you got on the plate)
Make a swedish fish border all the way around.
So cute!!